In addition to supporting a wide range of file formats and profiles, Imaging Transcoding Library has significant advantages over other third-party solutions around performance, scalability, and quality. Here are some of the key benefits that Imaging Transcoding Library provides:

Scales with increasing file size or resolution: Scaling is primarily achieved by the patented ability of Imaging Transcoding Library to re-size while decoding files. This ability ensures that runtime memory usage is always optimum and is not a quadratic function of increasing file size or resolution megapixels. Imaging Transcoding Library can process larger and high-resolution (containing higher megapixels) files. Third-party tools, such as ImageMagick is unable to handle large files and crashes while processing such files.

Photoshop quality compression and resizing algorithms: Consistency with industry standard in terms of quality of down sampling (smooth, sharp and automatic bicubic) and compression quality. Imaging Transcoding Library further assesses the quality factor of input image, and intelligently uses optimum tables and quality settings for output image. This ability produces files of optimal size without compromising on visual quality.

High throughput: The response time is lower and throughput is consistently higher than ImageMagick. Therefore, Imaging Transcoding Library should decrease the wait time for users and the cost of hosting.

Open the Process Thumbnails workflow process step and add the MIME types for which you want to skip the default thumbnail generation process in the Skip Mime Types list. For example, if you want to create thumbnails for a JPEG image using Imaging Transcoding Library, specify skip:image/jpeg in the Skip Mime Types field.

Navigate to the Web Enabled Image tab, and add the MIME types for which you want to skip the default web rendition generation process in Skip List. For example, if you skipped MIME type image/jpeg in step 6, add image/jpeg to the skip list of the Web Enabled Image tab.

Drag SwitchEngine Handler from the Sidekick to below the Process Thumbnails step.

Open the SWitchEngine Handler step. In the Arguments tab, add the MIME types you want Imaging Transcoding Library to process to the Mime Types list. For example, if you skipped the MIME type image/jpeg in step 6, add image/jpeg to the Mime Types list in the Arguments tab.

Add commands to SwitchEngine Handler using one of the following ways:

Based on custom requirements, tune the parameters of commands that you specify. For example, if you want to preserve the color profile of your JPEG image, add the following commands to the Commands list:

Generate thumbnails from an intermediate rendition using a single command. The intermediate rendition acts as source to generate static and web renditions. This method is faster than the earlier method. However, you cannot apply custom parameters to thumbnails using this method.

To generate web renditions, configure parameters in the Web-Enabled Image tab as depicted in the following image.